Chapter 910 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

At the moment he crossed the portal, Hao Ren felt that everything changed dramatically. Not only was he coming to a strange place, but there was also even an illusion that he had suddenly fallen into an alien world. Hao Ren felt that his senses were drifting off. He had a weird feeling of the surroundings, gravity, and temperature. He was in the Calamity Cloister, but it felt like it was another world although it was only a part of the territory of the Ancattero family. The dimension was alien.

A chill suddenly ran up his spine.

Hao Ren shivered. He thought he was being attacked, but he soon discovered that it was just a chill, and this chill was not real. It was a vast, indescribable force peeping at him. The hostility and pressure of this force had given him the illusion of falling into an ice cave.

“It’s a goddamn place,” Hao Ren mumbled to himself as he tried to calm himself from the uneasy feeling. He looked around and saw that he was standing in a passageway. He could not see the end of the passageway, which had a tall and sloping roof with grooves ragged fabric hanging down from the above. The fabric was swinging in the air even though there was no wind. The entire passageway was made up of huge black stones, void of any decoration and bright colors. All he saw was a whole piece of depressive darkness as if colors had been erased from this space.

The passageway was not wholly dark though as there was faint light that came from nowhere defused in the air. Hao Ren could see the surroundings. He had noticed that fog filled the passageway. The nature of this fog was similar to the mist that he saw when he first entered the mysterious realm of Ancattero.

He heard footsteps behind him. Y’zaks and others had crossed the portal into this space. Just like Hao Ren, Hasse had also sensed the unusual atmosphere here. He held a crossbow in one hand and a rune card in another, his voice grave. “Do you feel it?”

Y’zaks replied with a bassy voice, “Well, a powerful force is holding up here, and is peeping at us. I couldn’t tell its position as it is like everywhere. I’m afraid that it’s the mother of all Shades of Chaos if they have a mother.”

Vivian was the last came in. Her brows pulled together, and she felt it inexplicable when she heard the conversation. “A powerful force? Where? I can’t feel it.”

“You can’t feel it?” Hao Ren glanced at Vivian with amazement. “I feel it, and goosebumps are all over me.”

“I just feel that the atmosphere here is terrible,” Vivian said, tilting her neck uncomfortably. ‘It’s not just the dark surroundings, but the feeling of something lurking around in all directions in the background. Apart from that, nothing else.”

Hao Ren and Y’zaks exchanged a look. Both of them could feel that there was something that was powerful. Though indescribable, the feeling of being stared at by that thing was unmistakable real as it sent a chill down their spines. It was weird that Vivian had not been able to sense it.

“I don’t know what’s going on,” Vivian said, knowing that Hao Ren would not lie. Her face turned serious. “It seems that my perceptibility has become slightly different from yours. There are only two possibilities for this: this space is unique where different people will have sensed things differently, or the problem lies with me.”

Vivian did not elaborate on the latter, because she knew that there had been so many strange things that she could not explain happening to her. She, however, suspected that the problem might have something to do with her successful sealing of the Shades of Chaos thousands of years ago. The shadow of the seal is related to: If the strange atmosphere in this space did not affect her, she might have the opportunity to recapture and re-seal the shadows.

There was only one way forward. Vogus was right; the shadowy maze was used to trap those irrational things, people with a normal state of mind would not see the branching-paths and traps in the maze. Focusing their mind, Y’zaks and Hao Ren took the lead and strode further into the endless passageway.

The fog and dim light began to prevent them from seeing clearly but not Hao Ren. He was not usual in that he had supervision. Despite the poor visibility, they dared not use any light. Light would create shadow, the shadow would attract the Shades of Chaos, and that would only become more dangerous.

The uniqueness of the Shade of Chaos was that they did not merely lurk in the darkness, but in the gray zone where light and shadow overlapped. So the dimness in the passageway was safer instead. When there was no light, there would be no shadows.

It was probably one of the sealing mechanism of the shadowy maze.

The Calamity Cloister was long and winding with alternate straight paths and corners. Due to the poor visibility, Hao Ren could only roughly tell that he was moving in a maze judging from the twists and turns through which he was traveling. He began to imagine the countless branching-paths and hidden openings along the smooth walls that he had passed. He could not see them only because he was sober.

Perhaps he needed to be possessed by the Shades of Chaos to see the hidden paths, he thought.

He quickly shook this dangerous thought off his mind.

The strange space felt so depressed that it had caused him to have strange thoughts.